On Friday 28 November 2014 16:16:44 Marcos Douglas wrote: > > FPC has Unicode support since ages, it is named "UnicodeString". It even > > had it before Delphi before Florian killed it by making the reference > > counted win32 WideString a Delphi compatible OLE string. I unsuccessfully > > begged to preserve the referencecounted 16 bit string type on all > > platforms. Please forget the crap with "codepage aware ansistring", > > dynamic encoded string and what not... > > MSElang has "string8" (utf-8), "string16" (utf-16), "string32" (UCS-4) > > and "bytestring" which can hold any 8-bit encoding or binary data. > > That's what I'm talking about! > You (alone?) solved this problem. Why FPC _team_ has not resolved yet? > Because they need to be Delphi compatible and because it is a hobby project where the purpose is not to produce tools for others for free but that the developers have fun.
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